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BabyCenter | Respiratory Syncytial Virus: "Our son got a cold at 3 months, it kept getting worse, and our pediatrician just said its a cold let it run its course. After 6 weeks, he was past coughing, he was wheezing, and it became pneumonia. 4 weeks on the nebulizer, he was better for one week. Then he got worse in one day, it was bronchialitis, and he was in the hospital for one week, steroids, antibiotics, albuterol in the nebulizer. We took him home, and after about one more month on the machine at home he was better. Now he's 11 months old, got a cold, and the RSV is back. Nebulizer again."

Bradley's got the wheeze again, he had it last Christmas.

I'm sure he'll be fine, but is coughing a lot tonight, and his chest seems bubbly.

Anyway, he had it last year and fought it off, probably be easier this time. And the stories I'm reading are about under one years old.

A cold can turn to pneumonia so quickly. Watch the number of respirations per minute. If they are over 45 when she's at rest, go to the emergency room. If there is a pronounced retraction of the abdomen or space in the throat between the collarbone, any lethargy, wheezing, fever, and, of course, runny nose and cough, even if it sounds loose, get to the emergency room.

He's still coughing... I'll take him in to the hospital.

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